Dr Barry Devereux

Senior Research Associate

Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain
Department of Psychology
University of Cambridge
Downing Street
Cambridge CB2 3EB
UK

Research Interests

In my research I investigate lexical processing, object processing, and their relationship to
underlying semantic representations. In particular, I am interested in the role that
conceptual structure -- the statistical regularities between semantic features in a
distributed semantic system -- plays in the representation and activation of conceptual information in the
brain. My research utilizes multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data and computational modelling.

More generally I am also interested in computational neurolinguistics -- investigating how empirical
linguistic data and models from computational linguistics can shed light on lexical, syntactic and
semantic processing in the brain.

In 2007 I completed my Ph.D. at University College Dublin, which was on the topic of conceptual
combination and the interpretation of noun-noun compounds.